Research

The Role of Listening in Public Health: Removing Stereotype Threat through Individualized Respect

I am currently working on a book manuscript titled Interspecies Politics, imagining a politics of difference inclusive of the more-than-human world. Whereas other recent studies in environmental philosophy have concentrated on expanding circles of similarity to extend rights outwards from what I call the Vitruvian Man model of essentialist normativity, Interspecies Politics goes beyond animals to investigate the biosemiotic intelligence, semiosis, and agency of the entire phylogenic rhizome of life, without privileging or hierarchizing a certain instantiation merely on the basis of anthropo-narcissism.

Public Health, Business Ethics, and Bioethics

Conceptions of harm reduction (i.e. the relationship between market systems and regulation)

Corporate legitimizing strategies (such as Corporate Social Responsibility) when faced with delegitimized business practices (such as the tobacco industry’s role in the pharmaceuticalization, clinicization, and medicalization of nicotine dependency)

Industry Epidemics (Patterns of corporate subversion of democracy and undermining the rule of law resulting from lexically prioritizing fiduciary interests)